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Going to make this post in more or less quick fashion - going to head over and see the Rays play at the Trop.

Twins played two games today -- Red Sox and the Phillies -- we were obviously hoping for a sweep so we can be in contention for the championship game to be played at the "big" field on Saturday night (under the lights) -- the Red Sox team we found out has some very good hitting and they started the day 2-0 - a loss would guarantee us not making it to the championship game - it was important.

Red Sox jumped on us early, striking for 3 runs in the first inning - I was feeling kind of bad as my defense was not very good - I didn't get a good read on a sky high pop up behind 2nd base - I was playing RF and if I would have been on my horse, that was my ball, the CF was shading toward left - then a play later I missed a cutoff man allowing the runner to advance to 2nd -- so I feeling a little bummed out about not making those routine plays -- I would soon not feel so bad about those "misplays" -- Red Sox tack on a few more runs and take a 6-0 lead into the bottom of the third, the Twins finally got their rally on as we loaded the bases with no outs - I went up to the plate and laced a nice line drive to RF - unfortunately it was right at the fielder - it ended up going as a Sac Fly and we plate our first run, but boy if that is left or right 10-12 feet, it would have rolled a long way.  We score two more to make 6-3 and seemingly things are looking good - a scoreless fourth inning both ways leads to a 5th inning -- well long story short a hit parade broke out and the Sox strike for 11 runs in all -- we didn't get any and the game is over by virtue of the 10 run rule -- 17-3.  They hit well - tip your cap.

Our 2nd game in the afternoon was against the Phillies - in talking with the first baseman, the Phillies won the Championship Series in 2013 (they beat the Red Sox) so it was fun to get that update - all the teams & players are really decent guys (except the Yankees, Red Sox, Mets..........).  We were the visiting team and scored a run to begin the game, I walked and came around on a base hit to make 1-0.  The Phillies got 2 in the bottom of the inning - a few base hits but nothing hit hard so the game was off and running - we scored a couple more runs in the third to make it 3-2 and they tied it up in the fourth to make it 3-3.  We head to the top of the sixth inning and the bats finally broke out - some timely walks to jam the bases up - but a couple of sharp hit balls and the Twins put up a nice crooked number -- in fact we scored 8.  We closed them down in the 6th and 7th and walked away with a 11-3 victory and a 2-2 record going into the last day -- our Division looks like this:

Red Sox 4-0
Twins 2-2
Mets (1)  2-2
Yankees (1)  1-3

A win tomorrow (we play at 11am) we secure a #2 seed and play the other division 2nd place team at 3pm -- a loss -- well we could be the 4 seed -- so let's win our 11am game (which will be played at Steinbrenner field) and leave town above .500!

Unofficial Hitting stats -- 4 for 7, 4 Runs, 2 BB, HBP, SF, 2 RBI
Unofficial Pitching - 4 IP, 5 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 3 K

~~ "You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra ~~